2011-05-14, 01:23 PM
FoolsLove Wrote:Tell that to the Canadians who won Gold last year, and the United States who took the Silver, in the Olympics.
Idk what the butt are you talking about. Canada wasn't the world champion last year, Czech was. And if you didn't see, I talked about US.
See this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IIH...#Champions
Not much US there.
And why is Olympics bolded? Is it ranked higher than World Championships?
My intention was not "LOOK GUYS, FINLAND IS THE BEST COUNTRY IN HOCKEY OF ALL TIME". It was "Look, check out this probably the greatest goal ever". Because, personally I haven't seen anything like it. It was the top headline at NHL.com.
But then Americans came in. "Lol, that's nothing. Happens always in NHL."
Wikipedia Wrote:A steady stream of European players began entering the league in the 1970s, continuing into the 1980s. Most of the first wave of Europeans came from Sweden and Finland, with a small number of defectors from the Soviet Bloc. Since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, political/ideological restrictions on the movement of hockey players from this region have disappeared, leading to a large influx of players mostly from Czech Republic, Slovakia and Russia into the NHL. Swedes, Finns, and other Western Europeans, who were always free to move to North America, came to the league in greater numbers than before. Many of the league's top players today come from these European countries, including: Ilya Kovalchuk, Henrik Sedin, Daniel Sedin, Henrik Zetterberg, Marian Hossa, Nicklas Lidstrom, Miikka Kiprusoff, Teemu Selanne, Zdeno Chara, Pavel Datsyuk, Evgeni Malkin, and Alexander Ovechkin.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Hockey_League
NHL is the best hockey league, not because it is in AMERICA, but because most of the international top players play there (bit less now, when there's KHL)